Actix 4.14.1

Breaking: Actix Web 4.14.1 is out. Released August 9, 2026. One fix, and it is a good one: graceful shutdown now closes idle HTTP/1 keep-alive connections.

What Changed

Actix Web 4.14.1 tightens graceful shutdown behavior. Idle HTTP/1 keep-alive connections are now closed immediately when shutdown begins. Active connections get to finish only their current request before the server closes them.

Why It Matters

• Faster restarts — no more waiting on idle sockets during deploys.
• Cleaner drains — in-flight requests complete, idle ones do not linger.
• Zero config — behavior is automatic, no flags to set.

Upgrade

Drop-in patch. Bump Cargo.toml to actix-web = "4.14.1" and run cargo update. No breaking changes. No migration steps.

Actix Web 4.14.1 is live on crates.io now.